We believe that the uniform-time measure is the correct objective approach to inductive reasoning in the multiverse. It consistently reflects our current state of knowledge about the ancestral vacuum and time of
nucleation — we simply do not know at this point how/when eternal inflation started in our past. Importantly, despite adopting the least informative priors, the resulting measure is surprisingly predictive. It favors vacua that can be accessed through a sequence of downward transitions, from a large basin of high-energy vacua. Thus such vacua belong to a landscape region with the topography of a funnel [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, akin to folding funnels of proteins [4]}. Furthermore, by predicting that we exist at early times in eternal inflation, the measure implies that we are “normal" observers as opposed to freak observers (Boltzmann brains) [5]}, [6]}, [7]}, [8]}, [9]} produced
on exponentially longer time scales.
